Charyl Stockwell Academy provides a safe place for children to grow and learn from childhood to adolescence. At CSA we provide a need fulfilling learning environment that is based on high expectations for quality work and academic performance, and educates the whole child. Our educational model addresses the intellectual/academic, social/emotional, moral/character, and physical development of each individual child. The educational methodologies we utilize at CSA are grounded in best educational practice, supported by extensive research. One of the top schools for gifted children in Michigan, Charyl Stockwell Academy stands for intellectual rigor within a warm and nurturing environment, free of coercive methods and interventions with children. Research on the brain and learning presents compelling evidence that children must feel emotionally safe in a school setting in order to fully maximize their learning potential.

We utilize a continuous progress / mastery learning model, with programs for gifted students, to insure intellectual rigor; we promote methods that build upon every child’s intrinsic motivation to learn to insure an emotionally safe and need-fulfilling environment, and we have infused a strong character education program to insure that a child’s moral development is addressed within the school curriculum.

Unique Qualities of Charyl Stockwell Academy

is a tuition free public school

is a Michigan Public School Academy

Uses a character education program called Smart Character Choices

offers programs for gifted students based on the work of Dr. Barbara Clark and
Dr. AnneMarie Roeper

is implementing the Quality School model of Dr. William Glasser

uses the High/Scope developmental model for class organization

integrates the Pentathlon math games into its math instruction

uses a Teacher Support Team system to prevent learning
failure and to provide special help to students with special needs and uses a non-labeled, full inclusion approach to special education